Shoe-button cap



Feb. 5, 1924; 1,482,940 Y I H. MUNZER SHOE BUTTON CAP Filed May 29, 1925 INVEHTOR BY I ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 5, 1224i.

l T Jill HENRY MUNZER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHOE-BUTTON CAP.

Application filed May 29, 1923.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY MUNZER, a citizen of the United States, residin at New York city, in the county of New ork and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shoe-Button Caps, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my said invention is the provision of a shoe-button cap of peculiar and advantageous construction adapted to cover the button used for the connection of shoe straps with a view to ornamenting the shoe and enhancing the dressy appearance thereof.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists in the shoe-button cap as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification Figure 1 is a perspective showing my novel button cap in use.

Figure 2 is an enlarged view of the inner side of the cap.

Figure 3 is an elevation at right angles to Figure 2.

Figure iis an enlarged detail section illustrating the relation of my novel cap to a button and shoe straps connected together through the medium of the button.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

The shoe 1 is provided with straps 2 and 3, the strap 2 being equipped with a button l, Figure 4-, and the strap 3 being provided with a buttonhole 5 for the detachable connection of the straps through the medium of the said button.

My novel cap generally designated by 6 is designed to be applied to the button after connection of the straps through the medium of the button and is also designed to be readily removed from the button precedent to the disconnection of the straps.

As clearly shown in Figures 2 and 3 my novel cap 6 comprises a body portion 7 and a clip 8 spaced from and arranged in par allel relation to the inner side of the body 7 and joined to said body 7 by end arms 9. The body 7 is preferably, though not necessarily, of concavo-convex formation, and its outer side is preferably provided with indentures or other ornamental means in the Serial N 0. 642,305.

discretion of the manufacturer. The clip 8 is in the form of a flat plate and is provided with a bifurcation 10, the throat 11 of which is contracted and is provided with opposed convex side walls 12. By virtue of this construction it will be readily understood that when the cap 6 is applied to a button such as f, the side walls of the throat of the bifurcation in the clip will permit the button shank to pass into the comparatively wide portion of the bifurcation, after which the said walls of the contracted throat will preclude the possibility of the shank of the button working casually through the throat of the clip and releasing the cap so as to lose the same. By the application of a little stress, however, it will be understood that the throat of the clip 8 may be readily sprung past the shank of the button a for the ready engagement or disengagement of the cap.

Manifestly the improved clip 8 of my novel cap 7 will obviate the possibility of the cap being casually released and lost, and this will be appreciated as an important advantage when it is stated that in many cases the cap will be made of or will be plated with precious metal with a view to contributing to the elegant appearance of a shoe or slipper.

Notwithstanding the practical advantage possessed by the clip of my novel cap it will be appreciated that the said clip does not render the cap more expensive than similar caps extant.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters-Pat ent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a shoebutton cap comprising a body, and a clip carried by and spaced from the inner side of the body and arranged in parallelism to said side and joined by opposite angularly disposed arms to opposite points of said .side and having a bifurcation with a contracted throat to receive the shank of a button, the opposed side walls of said throat being convex and the inner end wall of the bifurcation being at right angles to the length thereof and considerably longer than the throat is wide.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature.

HENRY MUNZER. 

